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Learn SQL Database Programming

You're reading from   Learn SQL Database Programming Query and manipulate databases from popular relational database servers using SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838984762
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Josephine Bush Josephine Bush
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Database Fundamentals
2. Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems FREE CHAPTER 3. Installing and Using MySQL Workbench 4. Understanding Data Types 5. Designing and Creating a Database 6. Importing and Exporting Data 7. Section 2: Basic SQL Querying
8. Querying a Single Table 9. Querying Multiple Tables 10. Modifying Data and Table Structures 11. Section 3: Advanced SQL Querying
12. Working with Expressions 13. Grouping and Summarizing Data 14. Advanced Querying Techniques 15. Programmable Objects 16. Section 4: Presenting Your Findings
17. Exploring and Processing Your Data 18. Telling a Story with Your Data 19. Section 5: SQL Best Practices
20. Best Practices for Designing and Querying 21. SQL Appendix 22. Assessments 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to query a single table. This included learning how to use the SQL SELECT statement and the FROM, WHERE, and ORDER BY clauses.

With the SELECT and FROM clauses, you learned how to select distinct records with the DISTINCT keyword, how to limit results with the LIMIT keyword, how to save a SQL query to a file, and how to add proper comments to SQL code.

With the WHERE clause, you learned how and when to use the WHERE clause, along with AND, OR, NOT, IN, and BETWEEN, and how to use with the percent sign (%) and underscore (_) wildcards.

With the ORDER BY clause, you learned how to order query results by one or more columns.

Finally, you learned how to tell which index your query is using and if you need additional indexes by using EXPLAIN or the visual explain tool in MySQL Workbench. You also learned how to add an index to make the query...

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